DQ Evaluate a clinical preventative intervention designed to promote health and wellness for populations NUR 550 Topic 6 DQ 1

DQ Evaluate a clinical preventative intervention designed to promote health and wellness for populations NUR 550 Topic 6 DQ 1

Health promotion is the process of enabling people to control their health and improve their health(Nash et al., 2021). A population health problem we have seen grow in the United States is obesity and in my area of work obesity in pregnancy carries a lot of complications. Obesity in pregnancy is associated with higher risk pregnancies and complications in birth as well as long term complication and consequences of the child (Reichetzeder, 2021). Obesity in pregnancy is associated with pre-eclampsia, preterm birth gestational diabetes and gestational hypertension, which can all be life altering to the mother. Obesity in pregnancy can also have developmental effects on the child such as predisposition to obesity and diabetes(Reichetzeder, 2021). Obesity is a preventable disease, yet when an obese women presents pregnant, the preventive intervention becomes management of the complications of obesity in pregnancy.

In my facility and my state, we have had an initiative to monitor women that have a BMI higher than 35 to educate and start on a mild exercise program to help manage the weight in pregnancy. Exercise in pregnancy has shown even in overweight women can protect the offspring from obesity and metabolic dysfunction later in life(Reichetzeder, 2021). The intervention is to have the women participate on 15-30 min of mild exercise a day. Pregnancy exercise and childbirth classes are offered to all women and are encouraged to participate, close monitoring of the pregnancy is also involved. While this is a fairly new intervention at my facility, outcomes of health is still being monitored but it has been received very well and had created a support group for women as well as receiving the exercise needed.

DQ Evaluate a clinical preventative intervention designed to promote health and wellness for populations

Nash, D. B., MD, MBA, Skoufalos, A., EdD, MS, Fabius, R. J., MD, FACPE, & Oglesby, W. H., Phd, MBA, MSPH, FACHE. (2021). Population Health Creating a Culture of Wellness (3rd ed.) [e-book]. Jones & Bartlett Learning.